Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Welcome to our April Reflections and Corrections episode. Let's start with the

reflections. We recently finished our 10th book of the Bible and are currently

working our way through three others.

So let's get the 30,000 foot view on where we are in the chronological timeline of the Bible's

overall met a narrative.

The Bible is one unified story. Way back in Genesis, God set out to build a relationship

with one particular family, but things go terribly wrong when they fracture the relationship

through sin. But their sin doesn't surprise God. He already had a plan

in place to restore this relationship even before it was broken and he

continues working out that plan immediately undeterred and unhindered by their rebellion.

He sets apart a man named Abraham to be the patriarch of the family, and he gives this family a

name.

The Israelites.

They're a busted bunch of people who lie, cheat, and steal. God blesses them despite their sin, but

sin still has its consequences. One of the long storylines of consequence is of the 400 years

they spent enslaved in Egypt.

God sends a man named Moses to demonstrate his power to the Egyptian ruler

who reluctantly agrees to let the Israelite slaves go.

They flee to the desert, led by God and his servant Moses, and in little

by little, God gives these people the basic rules of how to set up a stable society.

All they've ever known is slavery under a cruel dictator.

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